İzmir

Cleaning works will last for at least two months after a 50-ton-fuelled ship stranded in the Çeşme district of the Aegean province of İzmir leaked and polluted its Paşalimanı area and Ilıca-Yıldız Burnu coast, Çeşme District Mayor Muhittin Dalgıç has said. 

Dalgıç said the winter conditions were increasing the spread of fuel over the sea.  

Some 24 suspects were detained in four provinces in Turkey on Dec. 22 on charges of "promoting terrorism" on social media, the Turkish police has said.         

Turkish authorities have released the relatives of an off-duty policeman who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andey Karlov, Doğan News Agency has reported on Dec. 22.

Details continue to emerge regarding the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was killed late on Dec. 19 by a Turkish police officer in central Ankara.

Istanbul prosecutors on Dec. 20 have demanded heavy life sentences and an additional 10 years of prison term for Atalay Filiz, a Turkish serial killer who became widely known after committing a series of murders. 

From large canvases to glass figurines and musical plans, artworks recently displayed in the Aegean province of İzmir reflect the political issues of 2016, including violence against women, child abuse and environmental issues.

In Galeri A, Tülin Yiğit Akgül's glassworks, titled "3 Rooms and 1 Living Room," focus on women taking charge to solve their own problems. 

A 60-year-old Turkish woman, whose travel photos went viral on the internet after she lost her camera in a car in which she was hitchhiking, has been found in the Aegean province of İzmir.  

Thousands of social media users sparked a viral campaign to find her and nicknamed her "Ayşe Teyze" (Aunt Ayşe).

A man who attempted to attack world-renowned pianist Fazıl Say's concert with a cleaver was released after being detained in the western province of İzmir on Dec. 14, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Six female teachers who volunteered to provide additional education to 35 students in a village of the Karabağlar district in the western province of İzmir barely escaped sexual assault by a group of men in the village in May, it has been revealed after the opening of a trial into the case, according to daily Habertürk.

A Turkish businessman, who was arrested after an investigation into the July 15 failed coup attempt that was believed to have been orchestrated by the Gülen movement, died on Nov. 29 in prison in the western province of İzmir, Doğan News Agency has reported.